Backstage at Milan Fashion Week, Giorgio Armani talks to The Telegraph about the modern-day pressures on designers and that he's sorry to hear the recent Galliano news.

Speaking through a translator, the Italian fashion designer said he was sorry that John Galliano had been video taped without his knowledge and added that it was obviously a difficult time for him.

Galliano, 50, was in the French capital's Marais district - the traditional home of the city's Jewish community - on Thursday evening, and is believed to have been drinking at café La Perle when he launched the alleged attack on Geraldine Bloch, 35, and Philippe Virgiti, 41.

Galliano's lawyer Stéphane Zerbib on Saturday that the Christian Dior designer has filed a claim of defamation and injury against the couple after visiting police at midnight on Friday to state on the record that he never made any anti-Semitic or racist comments.

Zerbib also said Galliano is "shocked" that Dior - citing a zero-tolerance policy on racism and anti-Semitism - suspended him from his job functions pending the outcome of the police investigation.